Claude Frederick Curtin (4 July 1920 – 13 December 1994) was an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

er who played with Fitzroy in the VFL. A full-forward, Curtin was the nephew of former Australian Prime Minister

John Curtin John Curtin (8 January 1885 – 5 July 1945) was an Australian politician who served as the 14th prime minister of Australia from 1941 until his death in 1945. He held office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), having been most ...

. He kicked over fifty goals in a season on four separate occasions, from 1940 to 1942 and in 1946. In each of those seasons he topped Fitzroy's goalkicking. He would have been a member of the club's 1944 premiership side had he not be away on war service. His grandson is former Fitzroy, Brisbane Lions and Hawthorn player John Barker.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Curtin, Claude 1920 births Fitzroy Football Club players North Melbourne Football Club players 1994 deaths Australian rules footballers from Melbourne People from Brunswick, Victoria Australian military personnel of World War II Military personnel from Melbourne 20th-century Australian sportsmen